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Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 10: It’s Hard Tae Catch A breath When Yir Daein’ Mair Fir Less

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 1, 2020

I had paid just under £80 pounds for LV holiday insurance, the best money we have ever spent in my life and I was very privileged to have experienced such a high […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 9: ‘It Doesn’t’ Have To Be ‘Right’ To be Called Love’

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on June 1, 2020

In today’s post, John Davis explores ideas of resilience, trauma and resistance/power in ways that critique individualised and overly medicalised notions of trauma.  This critique utilises notions of strength-based working and the […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 8: If He Wiz Chocolate He’d Eat Himsel’

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on May 15, 2020

In this article John Davis continues to discuss his gruelling experience of being hospitalised in the USA.  He, specifically, discuses an issue he had with a plastic surgeon.  In order to make […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 7: Don’t Judge Us By Our Worst Moment Of Our Worst Day

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on May 12, 2020

In this post John Davis returns to discussing the cataclysmic health issues he encountered in the USA and critiques some of the care he received.  It is difficult to criticise health professionals […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 6 Everybody Hurts:

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on May 3, 2020

In this article John Davis continues to examine the impact that his health issues had on his sense of self and on the well-being of his wife.  The previous article began to […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 5 The Partial From The Whole:

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on April 19, 2020

In today’s post, John Davis pauses from discussing the daily experiences in hospital, the outcomes of four operations and the nature of his impairments, to try to explain what it feels like […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 4: Walk Not Alone Among The Flames

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on April 13, 2020

In today’s post John Davis explores the bleaker aspects of being in hospital.  Including that death was an ever present, at times he felt he had nothing more to give and his […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 3: His Legs Were Weak And His Back Was Bent

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on April 10, 2020

In the next few articles, John Davis connects his experience of being in hospital to the current Corona virus crisis and explores issues such as loss, survival, friendship and hallucinations.  Today’s article […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 2: ‘He Was Aye Working!’

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on April 8, 2020

Following on from Article 1 In today’s article John Davis continues to recount his harrowing story of being admitted to hospital with gangrene in Phoenix and analyses his experience of having to […]

Don’t Let Me Die In Phoenix Article 1 An 8-1 Dog In A Two Horse Race

By The People's Republic Of Escotia on April 6, 2020

This is the first of a series of articles where John Davis recounts his experience of receiving life-saving surgery whilst on holiday in the USA and explains how the Social Model of […]

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